Tiger Woods the butt of player prank as US Ryder Cup team lighten the mood

A few hours after Tiger Woods’s historic victory in the Tour Championship on Sunday, with the world going absolutely potty at the return to the winners' circle of golf's prodigal son, the man of the moment arrived at Atlanta airport to meet up with his Ryder Cup team-mates. All of his team mates kept their backs to him with no one so much as lifting a head to acknowledge Tiger's arrival. “I heard Jim [Furyk, the United States captain] wanted to talk to me,” Woods recalled on Wednesday, smiling.